Ah, I was doing a little nostalgic surfing. Remember when YAHOO looked like this?

Yahoo 1996 (http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/)

And CNet looked like this?

CNet 1996 (http://web.archive.org/web/19961022174919/http://www.cnet.com/)

Boy, those were the days.

Yup, I remember them. I don't neccessarily miss them though :cool:

I hated that cnet design. :angry:

I don't remember them...

But Yahoo looked pretty good back then...it was plain! It wasn't so cluttered! Well I guess it is okay.

WebArchives is a pretty neat thing, eh? It is part of Alexa, right? Thanks!

definitely a bucket load less adverts thats the big advantage, back then web sites gave you the content without trying to prize your credit card and your life savings from you !

...and back then, clicking on a link actually led you to the page, instead of a 4 page re-direct/refresh with 10 popups ending up at 12 year olds and beastiality agecheck forms.

archive.org is definitely a neat tool. BUT, could some explain to me how is it possible to keep track(?) of all the web sites?

Thanks.

Probably magic, or voodoo. If not those things, then certainly something to do with green jello. Really too technical to explain fully here...

:homer: mmmmmmm, green jello

You made a good funny chicken!

Archive.org is awesome! Ever since I read about it on here a few thousand threads ago, It's been my favorite site. Even better than WHT. :)

I found part four of a short story that I had written that I thought was lost years ago, because I had deleted it and had been unable to track it down. Well just this week, I got the part again, because I remembered that it had been on my web site. Just one visit to archive.org, and there it was! Woohoo! They rule!

The last time I payed a visit to Yahoo, they looked exactly like that capture. As you can tell, I really don't yahoo :D

Originally posted by Chicken
...and back then, clicking on a link actually led you to the page, instead of a 4 page re-direct/refresh with 10 popups ending up at 12 year olds and beastiality agecheck forms.

Chicken what sites do you visit man??!!

Originally posted by Rewdog
:homer: mmmmmmm, green jello

You made a good funny chicken!

Maybe tasty too? *Me craves for some KFC*

Hey.. was that yahoo link supposed to be a joke or something?

That CNet link was fine.. it's an archive from '96, but yahoo is 2001.

At first I thought it was a joke when I saw the Yahoo link, but then I saw the CNet link and I can't figure out what you are up to :stickout


Anyways maybe i'm just missing the point here.........
:o

I've never heard of that archive.. thanks for it!
I typed in my old Hosting Company website which I started in 1996, and there was my old designs..
wow, have things changed..

thanks for the memories..
raqworld

i always wonder to they catch any pron sites. with all those images :D

Having seen the founder of archive.org on TechTV awhile back, I believe he stated that they've basically had a bot saving page after page ever since the idea came into play several years ago. They have a #(*$#load of servers from what I've heard.

I may be completely off as it's late, but I remember that being the jist of the interview.